What happened over Easter then? We decided that we'd stay in London after researching our Easter travel options, as it was going to cost a fortune, and the weather was going to be terrible too. It turned out that Matt got the flu (again) for the first couple of days, but this didn't stop us getting out and about.
Over the Easter weekend we visited a few more London sights including the Bank of England, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Tate Modern. Not to mention that Easter Monday brought the first sign of London snow. Logically, you would expect it to snow in winter not spring, however this is London after all.
Last week was quite a busy one both at work and socially, as we went to three theatre productions in 7 days. The first was Stomp - a performance that uses the body and ordinary objects to create percussive physical theatre. Then Anna scored some bargain half-price tickets to see Chicago on Wednesday, which Matt surprisingly enjoyed. The seats were 6 rows back, and the live music and performance was very entertaining. Last Saturday we watched a high energy dance theatre called Into The Hoods, as Anna got 50% off tickets on lastminute.com.
We bought tickets for the O2 Wireless music festival at Hyde Park which is held over 4 days from the 3rd to the 6th of July. We are going to the Saturday and Sunday shows. Saturday has Fatboy Slim and Underworld, while a change of pace on Sunday with Counting Crows, Ben Harper, Powderfinger and Donavon Frankenreiter.
After spending an hour or so last Monday night attempting to buy tickets for the Reading Festival and thinking that they were all sold out, Matt was ecstatic to discover that he could buy some today. Metallica are headlining the Sunday shows, and it was one of his goals to witness the glory of another Metallica thrash session...
While we are on the topic of festivals, the grand-daddy of all festivals went on sale this Sunday morning, 9am GMT - the Glastonbury Festival held at Worthy Farm on 27th, 28th and 29th June. Working together in teams, Operation Worthy Farm was headed up by Jay Edmondson, and proved to be a huge success as we all managed to get through (eventually) and bought tickets! Awesome!! Well done to all of those involved.
So as you can see, we have been very good at spending money. So much so that Matt was down to £58 in the bank, and Anna was down to £46. But now we're back in saving mode as we need to prepare for our 3 month travel extravaganza in September to the end of November when we return home.
Some more exciting travel news, is that we have booked in 2 holidays for May. The first is a 9 day discovery through Egypt, starting at Cario, we work our way south to Abu Simbel, spending 2 days on a felucca. Also, we are meeting up with a group of friends in Barcelona and spending a few days with them as they will be traveling through Europe.
Anna finished working at Tower Hamlets Friday week ago and is now working for Hackney Social Services as a JARP co-ordinator. She is really hating the distance as its taking around 2 or more hours one-way each day. She's in the process of looking for something more convenient, let's hope she gets a new job much closer to home.
Last weekend was the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, which conveniently starts at Putney Bridge. Unfortunately, the weather was terrible, but the crowd still came out in their 1000's and lined the banks of the Thames down to the finish at Chiswick Bridge. After the start, we rushed back home to catch the end on the tele.
The next day we caught the tube over to North Greenwich, where we saw The O2 Arena, aka the Millennium Dome. A massive dome structure which is a popular venue for big artists, complete with its own mini-shopping district inside the dome.
The main purpose of our trip east was to visit Greenwich Park and see where the prime meridian line where longitude is defined as 0.
Greenwich Park is the oldest enclosed Royal Park. Situated on top of a hill, we enjoyed views across the River Thames and The O2. The main highlight was probably seeing so many squirrels all in one place. They came out in great numbers, being encouraged my people feeding them peanuts, which made for some amazing photo opportunities. Things were'nt helped by the dogs that kept chasing after them!
This weekend we went for a walk through the crazy punk-territory of Camden and checked out the markets there. We were rained out, but still enjoyed the unusual shops and surroundings. No doubt we'll return on a day when the sun is out.
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